Team India On A Roll In Australia By Smashing Crucial Records In The Border-Gavaskar Cup 2018-19

The 2018-19 Border-Gavaskar Cup has literally been a record-breaking series so far.

In the last 13 innings played between India and Australia, players from both the teams have smashed through some extraordinary records, which no one believed were breakable.

Here is a list of all the major records the Men in Blue have broken until now:

1st Test - Adelaide

1. Rishabh Pant gloved a total of record 11 catches in the first Test which took place in Adelaide. Although he tied the record with England's Jack Russell and South Africa's AB de Villiers, it was a first for an Indian wicket-keeper.

2. The win in Adelaide made Virat Kohli the first Indian captain since Anil Kumble to win a Test match in the city. Kumble won a Test match way back in 2008.

3. India also became the first Asian country to win Test matches in Australia, South Africa and England in a single calendar year.

2nd Test - Perth

1. Mohammed Shami's six-wicket haul in Perth rocketed his total to 44 in 2018 which made him the first Indian pacer since Ishant Sharma (2011) to take over 40 wickets in a calendar year.

2. A Struggling KL Rahul tallied Sunil Gavaskar's record for getting bowled out for the highest number of times (3) in both the innings of Test matches in a single series.

3. By scoring his fourth century against Australia, Kohli equalled former Windies captain Clive Lloyd's record of the most number of Test tons hit by a visiting captain in Australia.

3rd Test - Melbourne

1. Breaking Syed Kirmani's record for the most number of Test series dismissals by an Indian wicket-keeper which stood at 19, the 21-year-old Rishabh Pant registered 20 dismissals under his name when he sent Nathan Lyon to the locker room in the last innings of the third test.

2. Jasprit Bumrah's 6/56 is the best bowling figures put up by an Indian at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. As an Indian bowler, Bumrah now has the second-best bowling record in Australia after Kapil Dev.

3. With a total of 1,138 Test cricket runs in 2018, Kohli overtook former Indian skipper Rahul Dravid as the highest scoring Indian Test batsman on foreign soil in a calendar year.

4. By notching 76 runs in Melbourne, debutant Mayank Agarwal broke a 72-year-old record of scoring the most number of runs in Australia on debut by an Indian batsman. The record rested with Dattu Phadkar who registered 51 runs on his debut against Australia back in 1947.

4th Test (Till Now) - Sydney

1. With brilliant batting skills and patience shown by Cheteshwar Pujara and Rishabh Pant, Team India was able to put up a monstrous score of 622/7d, which is the highest India have scored since 2007.

2. In the match of his life, Pant scored a massive 159 after Pujara departed for 193, breaking the record for the highest score by an Indian keeper in an away Test, previously held by MS Dhoni.

3. Cheteshwar Pujara has faced 1,251 balls in the 7 innings that he has batted with at least 200 balls in four of these innings. This feat of Pujara's broke Sunil Gavaskar's record of three innings in a series in Australia with 200+ balls played that he achieved during 1977-78.